Pico-World Dragnets: Computer-Designed Proteins Recognize and Bind Small Molecules
Posted On Saturday, September 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: computational biology, Engineering, Environment, Health and Medicine, Nature paper, News Releases, Research, Science, Technology, University of Washington
Computer-designed proteins that can recognize and interact with small biological molecules are now a reality. Scientists have succeeded in creating a protein molecule that can be programmed to unite with three different steroids.
The achievement could have far wider ranging applications in medicine and other fields, according to the Protein Design ...
In the Face of Trauma, Distance Helps People Find Clarity, Study Shows
Posted On Saturday, August 24, 2013 By USA Education News. Under TEXAS Tags: College of Liberal Arts, Jae-Eun Namkoong, Marlone Henderson, psychological trauma, Research, trauma, UT Athletics
AUSTIN, Texas — In the wake of tragedies such as the Sandy Hook school shooting, the Boston Marathon bombing and the devastating explosion in the Texas town of West, people are often left asking, “Why did this happen?”
According to new research from The University of Texas at Austin, the best ...
Field Work in Costa Rica Proves ‘An Amazing Experience’
Posted On Thursday, May 23, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program, Global, Graduate Studies, Keith Chapman, Research, Science, Students
Not every college student wants to spend 10 weeks in rural Costa Rica, working long hours in the field while battling muggy weather and vicious mosquitoes. But count Ellen Irwin ’14 as one who does.
“It was a lot of fun,” she says. “It was an amazing experience.”
Irwin spent a term ...
New Report Urges Action on Arctic Protection
Posted On Thursday, May 16, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Dickey Center for International Understanding, Office of Public Affairs, Research, Ross A. Virginia, Science, The John Sloan
Dartmouth and its partners in the Institute for Applied Circumpolar Policy (IACP) have issued a report urging the adoption of new shipping rules, improved safeguards against oil spills, and the creation of environmental and safety standards in polar waters.
The report calls for action by the Arctic Council, the intergovernmental organization ...
The Life Sciences Greenhouse Is Many Things to Many People
Posted On Thursday, May 9, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Community, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty, Joseph Blumberg, Life Sciences Greenhouse, Research, Science
Dartmouth’s 6,000-square-foot greenhouse sits atop the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center like a crown of gleaming glass. This living botanical museum opened in August 2011, offering resources for research, serving as a classroom for budding botanists and veteran horticulturists, and providing an inviting space for casual visitors.
Half the greenhouse ...
A Biologist Considers Apples And Oranges, Rice And Rubber
Posted On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Department of Biological Sciences, Eric Schaller, Faculty, green bags, greenhouse, Joseph Blumberg, Research
There is a scientific basis to the old adage “one rotten apple spoils the whole bunch,” says Dartmouth plant biologist Eric Schaller.
“As an apple ripens and rots, it releases the gaseous plant hormone ethylene,” says Schaller, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. “We know that ethylene stimulates the ...
Dartmouth Space Physicists Explore Earth’s Radiation Belts
Posted On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY, Faculty, Global, Joseph Blumberg, Mary Hudson, NASA, Research, Robyn Millan, Science
They say that it’s sunspots. That is the typical explanation you hear when your television goes on the fritz or your cellphone quits working or the GPS in your car tells you you’re driving in the middle of the ocean. Certainly, the sun is at the root of your problem, ...
Brown Launches TRI-Lab Community Initiative
Posted On Monday, April 8, 2013 By USA Education News. Under RHODE ISLAND Tags: Brown University, Burke Bryant, childhood development, Elizabeth Roberts, Research, Teaching
Brown University announced today the launch of a new initiative that will bring together students, faculty and community organizations to tackle pressing social issues. TRI-Lab — Teaching, Research and Impact — will be piloted beginning in the fall of the 2013-14 academic year with a focus on healthy early childhood ...
Dartmouth’s von Reyn Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
Posted On Sunday, March 3, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEW HAMPSHIRE Tags: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Faculty, Geisel School of Medicine, International, Lisa Adams, Research, Tuberculosis
In 2008, after seven years of efficacy testing on a tuberculosis vaccine on which he led development, C. Fordham (Ford) von Reyn ’67, Geisel ’69 received a phone call from the data and safety monitoring board that oversaw the study.
They told von Reyn to stop the trial. “The vaccine has ...
UK Undergraduates Present Research at ‘Posters-at-the-Capitol’
Posted On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 By USA Education News. Under KENTUCKY Tags: Office of Undergraduate Education, Office of Undergraduate Research, Posters at the Capitol, Research, Undergraduate
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 21, 2013) — Fifteen undergraduate researchers from the University of Kentucky have been selected to present at the 2013 Posters-at-the-Capitol event today at the state Capitol in Frankfort, Ky. This event will host more than 200 student representatives from across the state displaying the results of their ...
